Long-term forest management and timely transfer of carbon into wood products help reduce atmospheric carbon

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 220, Issue 13-14, 2009, Pages 1719-1723

  Liu, Guoliang ^a,b   Han, Shijie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Forest Ecosystem Solutions Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbon; Climate change; Forest management; Modelling; Sustainable carbon storage capacity; Wood products

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC CARBON; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CARBON EMISSIONS; CARBON FLUCTUATION; CARBON STORAGE; FOREST AREA; FOREST CARBON SINKS; FOREST CONDITIONS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; LONG TERM; MODELLING; NATURAL DISTURBANCE; PRINCE GEORGE; RESOURCE CONDITIONS; SCENARIO ANALYSIS; SHORT TERM; SUSTAINABLE CARBON STORAGE CAPACITY; TIMBER HARVESTING; TIMBER SUPPLY;

FOSSIL FUELS; HARVESTING; LEAKAGE (FLUID); LOGGING (FORESTRY); MANAGEMENT; TIMBER; WOOD PRODUCTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; HARVESTING;

CARBON; EMISSION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOSSIL FUELS; HARVESTING; LEAKAGE; LOGGING; WOOD PRODUCTS;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; PRINCE GEORGE;

EID: 66149168567     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.04.005     Document Type: Article

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